Infectious Diseases

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday in his annual state of the nation speech that there...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities reinstated a night curfew and extended COVID-19 lockdown measures in Melbourne for another two weeks...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police mobilised hundreds of buses and set up dozens of checkpoints on Sunday...

By Julie Gordon and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada on Friday said it will soon require all federal public servants...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Friday signed a deal to buy 30 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India expects to get about 266 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in August as a simpler licensing...

(Reuters) -Than Shwe, the former head of a junta that ruled Myanmar for nearly two decades, has been hospitalised in...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Ningbo airport has suspended inbound and outbound flights to the capital Beijing from August 11 due...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top U.S. officials held talks with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico on Tuesday to discuss immigration...

By Prasto Wardoyo TEMBOK GEDE, Indonesia (Reuters) - A homemade robot designed by Indonesian villagers and scientists for fun has...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities on Wednesday extended a lockdown in Melbourne for another seven days until Aug. 19 as...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand should keep its borders shut until early 2022 and reopen only after the vast majority...

By Kate Lamb (Reuters) - East Timor has recorded its first case of community transmission of the highly contagious Delta...

By Renju Jose and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian authorities on Tuesday vowed to crank up policing of anti-COVID lockdown...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia extended its COVID-19 curbs on populous Java and Bali islands until Aug. 16, but...

By Renju Jose and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's public approval rating hit its lowest level...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported on Monday more COVID-19 infections in its latest outbreak of the disease, while some cities...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state Victoria reported 11 new locally acquired coronavirus cases on Sunday, as the...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported 22 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, compared with 24 the day before, while the daily tally...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia saw a record daily number of new coronavirus cases this year on Saturday, with...